Rubber boot or shoe



(No Model.)

J. L. JOYCE.

BUBBBR BOOT 0B sHoB.

No. 404.416. Patented June 4, 1889.

.UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOSEPH L. JOYCE, OF NEIV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

RUBBER BOOT oR SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 404,416, dated June 4,1889.

Application filed October 22, 1888. Sen'al No. 288,791. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH L. JOYCE, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inIndia-Rubber Boots or Shoes; and I do hereby declare the following, whentaken in connection with accompan ying drawings and the letters ofreference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawings constitute part of this speciiication,and represent, in

Figure l, a side view of the foot portion of the boot complete; Fig. 2,an under side view of the boot before the heel is applied; Fig. 3, atransverse section through the heel portion, showing the heel applied.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of the heelportion of india-rubber boots or shoes, in which the heel is a solidheel, and in which the boot or shoe is worn Without an inner shoe havinga heel, in contradistinction to an overshoe in which the heel is hollow,to contain the heel of the inner shoe. In the usual construction of thisclass of boots and shoes the counter is drawn over and turned down uponthe insole and then the outer sole applied, the heel portion of theouter sole being of sufficient extent to lap up onto and around the sideof the counter, and then the heel is applied directly to the sole, theturned-up portion of the sole being exposed between the counter and theheel proper, and this is substantially necessary for the attachment ofthe heel as usually constru'cted.

The object of my invention is to avoid this overlapping` of the soleupon the counter and give to the heel portion of the boot an appearancesubstantially the Sallie as that of leather shoes; and it consists inmaking the heel portion of the sole of less extent than the area of theheel portion of the boot, and so that the turned-over portions of thecounter will be exposed on the heel-surface outside the edge of the heelportion of the sole, combined with a heel the area of which is largerthan the area of the heel portion of the sole, and so as to lap directlyonto the counter around the heel portion of the sole, the said heelhaving nails extending through it and through the turned-over portionsof the couliter through the insole, and turned down upon the inside, asa means of securing the heelbearing directly upon the counter outsidethe heel portion of the outer sole.

The boot throughout, except as to the heel portion, maybe of commonconstruction; but instead of cutting the heel portion A of the outsoleof an extent to overlap and be turned up onto the counter I make thesaid heel portion Aof the outsole of less area than the heel portion ofthe boot. Preferably the counter B is turned inward around the heelportion before the sole is applied, and onto the insole C, asrepresented in Fig. El. Then the outsole is applied, the contracted heelportion A joined to the turned-over edge of the counter, but so as toleave a margin a of the counter exposed around the heel portion of theboot, as seen in Fig. 2.

D represents the heel, which is made from lifts of leather or of anysuitable hard material, and which has an area upon its upper sidecorresponding to the area of the heel portion of the boot. This heel isprovided with a series of nails b, introduced around the edge of theheel, and which project through it a distance considerably greater thanthe thickness of the entire sole portion of the boot. The heel isapplied with the nails lirst inserted by setting the. heel in properrelative position to its place on the boot, then vforcing the heel withits nails down onto the boot, the nails piercing through to the insideof the boot, and are there deflected by a metal surface on the last andso as to be turned down close upon the inside, as seen in Fig. 3.

The upper surface of the heel is best recessed, as seen in Fig. 3; butin any case the outer edge d of the heel must overlap onto the counterupon the bottom of the boot and outside the edge of the heel portion ofthe sole, as clearly seen in Fig. This construction makes a closecontact between the heel and the counter and without the interpositionof the usual turned-over edge of the heel portion of the sole, whichgives to the boot or shoe around the heel the appearance substantiallythe same as that of a leather boot or shoe, and the heel is secured tothe boot in the most perfect manner.

The h erein-described improvement i n in diarubber boots or shoes havingsolid heels, con- TOO Sisiingr in a hoot having the lower edg'eof theCounter turned over onto the insole, the heel pol-Lion of ihe outsole ofnn :irren Sinniler than the :irren of the heel portion oi' the hoot, butThe Suid heel poron of the soie joined to the inner edge of theturned-over portion of the counter, so :1S 11o ienrve n nmrgin of theCounter upon theheel-Surfacearound theheel portion of Jthe oui'soie,combined with :L heel of hnrd inziteiinii, its upper Surface of un arencorresponding substmitinl'ly to the :Lren of the heel portion of thehoot nud lau-ger than the hee] portion oif the outsole, the heel appliedand its outer edge resting directly upon the counter outside bhe odgeol? the outsole, mld 15 the S11-id heel secured by nails through theheel sind through the solo, the pointu` oli' ille nails turned down upontheinside of the solo, Substantially as deszcrhed.

JOSEIII L. JOYCE.

.Viizi i eases:

Fluch U. EARLE, JAMES P. EARLE.

